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Drones Will Soon Be Dropping Medicines to Save Lives in Rwanda

Drones Will Soon Be Dropping Medicines to Save Lives in Rwanda A new project plans to use drones to deliver life-saving medicines, blood and vaccines...

IBM Brings Quantum Computing to the Masses

Big Blue has come a long way, baby. IBM announced it is making quantum computing available on the IBM Cloud to accelerate innovation in...

Backblaze Launches 60-Drive Storage Pod in Single Chassis

Last September, Backblaze—a storage mouse that roars—entered the cloud storage wars to compete directly against the likes of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google...

Where EMC Is Investing in Storage, Cloud Innovation

LAS VEGAS—When the news came Oct. 11 that Dell was going to spend upwards of $67 billion to acquire EMC and its far-ranging IT...

Comcast Diversifies With $3.8 Billion DreamWorks Acquisition

Today's topics include Comcast's acquisition of DreamWorks Animation, the addition of a Nano Server option to Windows Server 2016, new extensions to Yammer's team...

Gates Calls for Greater Investment in Energy, Health Innovation

WASHINGTON—Bill Gates came to the nation's capital to prod elected officials into doing more to support technological innovation, but he also took the opportunity...

Facebook Explains Key Role of AI in Its Future Development

Day 2 of Facebook's F8 conference was artificial intelligence day on the waterfront at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, where about 3,000...

Facebook Unleashes Big Data Workload of News at F8

Facebook sent reporters scrambling to process a virtual big data workload of news April 12 on Day 1 of its yearly F8 Conference on...

eWEEKchat April 13: How AR and VR Will Impact Us All

On Wednesday, April 13, at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 42nd monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be "How...

Startup Pyze Offers Mobile App Developers Free BI Analytics

Non-bakery startup Pyze has a noble mission: It wants to democratize business intelligence by making that functionality available right out of the box for...